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21 Jun 2016
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Defining Innovative Approaches to Inclusive and Sustainable Economic Growth

Nestle's CSV global forum entitled 'Investing in Sustainable Development in Africa,' brought together business, civil society and government leaders from Africa and beyond to discuss a range of key topics affecting the African continent. This video clip highlights some... View Details

Keywords: Society; Africa; Shared Value; Côte D'Ivoire; Civil Society or Community; Environmental Sustainability; Economic Growth; Africa

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08 Aug 2017
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The Role of Taxes in the Disconnect Between Corporate Performance and Economic Growth

Keywords: by Urooj Khan, Suresh Nallareddy, and Ethan Rouen

January 2000 (Revised November 2001)
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Mavesa (A): Business Strategy Amid Economic and Political Turmoil

Examines Mavesa's response to external liberalization in 1989. The consumer packaged goods firm, which had been extensively vertically integrated, completely revamps its business strategy in the 1990s. View Details

Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Economy; Business Strategy; Government and Politics

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March 2023 (Revised December 2023)
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Economic Analysis: The Hidden Costs of Layoffs and Managing Staff Reductions

By: Sandra J. Sucher, Marilyn Morgan Westner and Christopher Diak

Globally, over the past fifty years, more companies have used layoffs to cut costs during periods of decreased demand or economic downturns. But layoffs have far-reaching consequences, generate hidden costs, and harm the company in myriad ways. This note reviews ways... View Details

Keywords: Human Resource Management; Layoffs; Furloughs; Human Resources; Management Practices and Processes; Employee Relationship Management; Resignation and Termination; Compensation and Benefits; United States

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1988
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The Process of Economic Concentration in the American Economy

By: R. S. Tedlow

Keywords: Economics; Economy; United States

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11 Mar 2014
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HBS Associate Professor Amy Cuddy Named Young Global Leader by World Economic Forum

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Business and Low Income Sectors: The Creation of Economic and Social Value

In the last three decades, innovative commercial solutions have emerged in developing nations focusing on providing effective responses to the hugely underserved needs of low-income populations, both as consumers as well as active participants in productive value... View Details

May 1999
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A Mixed-Motive Perspective on the Economics versus Environment Debate

By: A. Hoffman, J. Gillespie, D. Moore, K. A. Wade-Benzoni, L. L. Thompson and M. H. Bazerman

Keywords: Perspective; Economics; Natural Environment

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25 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

China’s Economic System has Difficult Road Overcoming its Political System

One need only look as far as the bookshelf to see the optimism attached to China's ascension as a world economic and political power. Titles like The Dragon Awakes; The Rise of China; and When China Rules the World predict an inevitable,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

09 Sep 2015
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Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns

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The Economy of Fear: H.P. Lovecraft on Eugenics, Economics and the Great Depression

By: Sophus A. Reinert

The early twentieth-century weird writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft is today best remembered for his genre defining style of academic noir pulp fiction. Yet in focusing on certain tropes of his work, such as the many memorable monsters he created to populate his... View Details

Keywords: H.P. Lovecraft; Society; Economics

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SPACE: Space, Public and Commercial Economics - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog SPACE: Space, Public and Commercial Economics Course Number 1175 Professor Matthew Weinzierl Spring; Q3; 1.5 credits 14 sessions Paper Course Overview Space is a place of unparalleled possibility for humanity, and it is... View Details

2009
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The Harvard Economic Service and the Problems of Forecasting

By: Walter Friedman

Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Higher Education; Problems and Challenges; Economics

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2008
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Maintaining an Edge at ADI (D): Cellular Handsets Economics

By: Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble

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March 2014
Course Overview Note

Managing Global Health: Applying Behavioral Economics to Create Impact

By: Nava Ashraf

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2008
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Economic Factors Underlying the Unbundling of Advertising Agency Services

By: Mohammad Arzaghi, Ernst R. Berndt, James C. Davis and Alvin J. Silk

This paper addresses a longstanding puzzle involving the unbundling of services that has occurredover more than two decades in the U.S. advertising agency industry: How can the shift from the bundling to the unbundling of services be explained and what accounts for the... View Details